AP European History Chapter 16: 1820-1849 Section 7: 1840-1849 Political History By Dallin F. Hardy Prussia Frederick William IV 1840-1861 King of Prussia Britain & Coburg Marriage of Victoria & Albert 1840 Albert 1840-1861 Prince consort of Britain Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Dynasty 1840-1917 Robert Peel 1841-1846 Prime Minister Ireland Irish Potato Famine 1845-1849 Britain Repeal of the Corn Laws 1846 British Free Trade 1846-1914 Single largest free-trade area in Europe Catholic Church Pius IX 1846-1878 Pope Longest reigning elected pope in history 31 years Communism Karl Marx “Father of Communism” Communism Economic system that aims to replace private property with public ownership The Communist Manifesto February 1848 Karl Marx Europe Hungry Forties 1840s Widespread famine Revolutions of 1848 1848 France French Revolution of 1848 February 23, 1848 Abdication of Louis Philippe February 1848 New National Assembly Abolition of Slavery April 27, 1848 June Days Uprising June 23-25, 1848 French Second Republic 1848-1852 Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1848-1852 President of France Austrian Empire Vienna Uprising March 3, 1848 Resignation of Metternich March 13, 1848 Hungary Hungarian March Revolution March 15, 1848 Abolition of Serfdom April 11, 1848 Prague Slavic Congress June 2, 1848 Milan Five Day of Milan March 18-22, 1848 Austrian Empire Abdication of Ferdinand I December 2, 1848 Franz Joseph 1848-1916 Emperor of Austria Italy First Italian War of Independence March 23, 1848-1849 Giuseppe Mazzini Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi Italian nationalist Assassination of Rossi November 15, 1848 Roman Republic February 9, 1849 Battle of Novara March 22-23, 1849 French Siege of Rome April 30-July 1, 1849 Piedmont-Sardinia Victor Emmanuel II 1849-1861 King of Piedmont-Sardinia Prussia “March Revolution” 1848 Frankfurt Parliament 1848-1849 Political Theory The Production of Security 1849 Gustave di Molinari British Empire British Hong Kong 1841-1997 Treaty of Nanking 1842 .